Saturday Night Live alum Al Franken is fighting to become Minnesota's next Senator, but he's far from the first person to turn celebrity into a run for office. A look at a few of his predecessors and their entertainment careers before (and in some cases, after) they became public servants

Ben Jones

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Cooter!

It's tempting to write nothing more, since Ben Jones won't ever be known as
anything other than the crazy, greasy, dirty car mechanic from The
Dukes of Hazzard. Incredibly, though, he served two terms (1989-1993) as
a congressman from Georgia's Fourth District. His opponents could not help
but regularly refer to his rough past. In a nice bit of campaign judo, Jones responded simply, "I awoke
naked in a tattoo parlor in Talladega, Alabama. I knew it was time to change
my lifestyle. So I went into politics."